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Landfill to continue operations amidst lack of alternatives: BMC
Mumbai: With 88% of the city's total solid waste being sent to the Kanjurmarg landfill, civic officials on Thursday confirmed that no alternative site is available currently. The relief granted by the Supreme Court has allowed operations at the landfill to continue.
A team of BMC officials was present in Delhi for the court hearing. Mumbai generates between 7,000 and 7,500 ton of waste daily. Of this, about 6,200 ton is transported to the Kanjurmarg landfill, while the remaining 800 ton is sent to the Deonar landfill. "The Supreme Court order has come as a huge relief. We have already started bio-mining work at the Mulund dumping ground and recently initiated similar efforts at Deonar to tackle legacy waste.
Returning to those sites was never a viable option," said a civic official.
Prior to the high court stay, the BMC had also prepared a draft tender for implementing bio-mining and composting projects at the Kanjurmarg facility. However, these plans were put on hold due to the legal proceedings. According to civic officials, future plans for the Kanjurmarg site include processing a minimum of 5,000 ton per day (TPD) of mixed waste -- comprising 3,600 TPD of dry waste and 1,400 TPD of wet waste.
A 60-megawatt waste-to-energy (WTE) plant is proposed to handle dry waste, while a separate 500 TPD facility will treat wet waste to produce 16.3 ton of compressed biogas (CBG) daily. Additionally, the site houses a 1,000 TPD composting unit for wet waste, and a 1,000 TPD sanitary landfill (SLF) is planned for processing rejects. The entire project will occupy about 40 hectares of land. Once operational, the facility is expected to generate 462.5 million units of electricity annually, produce 16.3 ton of CBG per day, and yield 122 ton of compost daily.
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Environmental activist and petitioner Stalin Dayanand criticized the decision, pointing out the lack of due process. "After fighting a 15-year legal battle and receiving a detailed, favourable order from the high court, we weren't even granted a proper hearing before the Supreme Court. On Friday, we only received the special leave petition (SLP) at 3pm -- after we noticed it had been listed and had to request it ourselves," he said.
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